Environmental
Dec. 24, 2010
Electric Car Evangelist
Thomas Franklin, an intellectual-property attorney with a focus on clean technology at Townsend, was the first person in Southern California, and the second in the nation, to take possession of Nissan's LEAF electric car.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - Attorney Thomas Franklin, seated in his living room in La Jolla, was having a hard time wrapping his head around the continued dominance of gas-fueled automobiles.
"It's crazy," he said. "I'm going to put 20 gallons of highly flammable liquid in a small compartment, where I'm going to also sit, and go maybe 85 miles an hour, and there's fire going on in this...
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